Félix Trutat
French painter (1824–1848)
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Félix Trutat (27 February 1824 – 7 March 1848) was a French painter, known primarily for portraits and nudes.
Félix Trutat | |
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Portrait of the Artist and His Mother Portrait de l'artiste et de sa mère (1846) | |
| Born | 27 February 1824 Dijon, France |
| Died | 7 March 1848 (aged 24) Dijon, France |
Life and work
He studied with Léon Cogniet and Pierre-Paul Hamon at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also absorbed stylistic influences from the Venetian Old Masters that he copied in the Louvre.[citation needed]
He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four, with no known offspring.[citation needed]
Many of his works are reminiscent of Gustave Courbet. A majority of them are in the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon; including his self-portrait. Among those on display elsewhere is a portrait of an unidentified woman at the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner.[citation needed]
A street in Dijon has been named after him.[citation needed]
His cousin, Eugène Trutat, was a well known photographer and Director of the Muséum de Toulouse.
His first painting, Nude Girl on a Panther Skin, was used by John Berger to illustrate the concept of the male gaze in his groundbreaking work Ways of Seeing.[1][2] (Berger identified it within the book by an alternate title, Reclining Bacchante).[2]
